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Palin's Doublespeak

Sarah Palin has a habit of using the same word twice in a sentence. While repetition in a political speech can be a powerful rhetorical tool (think FDR'S "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), that's not what she's doing. In Palin's blizzard of words, apparently there are many snowflakes that look alike.

"And the American workforce is the greatest in this world, with the ingenuity and the work ethic that is just entrenched in our workforce."

"And I've joined this team that is a team of mavericks …"

"And that's why, with all due respect, I do respect your years in the U.S. Senate …"

"I do take issue with some of the principle there with that redistribution of wealth principle that seems to be espoused by you."

"I am because he's got a good health care plan that is detailed and I want to give you a couple details on that."6. "That doesn't cost the government anything as opposed to Barack Obama's plan to mandate health care coverage and have universal government run program and unless you're pleased with the way the federal government has been running anything lately, I don't think that it's going to be real pleasing for Americans to consider health care being taken over by the feds."

" And he also wants to erase those artificial lines between states so that through competition, we can cross state lines …"

"Well, as the nation's only Arctic state and being the governor of that state, Alaska feels and sees impacts of climate change more so than any other state."

"As governor, I was the first governor to form a …"

"I don't know how you can defend that position now, but I know that you know …"

"A two-state solution is the solution."

"Certainly, accounting for different conditions in that different country and conditions are certainly different."

"And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's agenda in that position."

"He's taken shots left and__ right__ from the other party and from within his own party, because he's had to take on his own party when the time was right, when he recognized it was time to put partisanship aside and just do what was right for the American people."

"We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms."